Re: UseNET voting

From: amb@cs.columbia.edu (Andrew Boardman)

Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1989 19:31:23 +0000

In article <61667@philabs.Philips.Com> jaa@frank.UUCP (Joseph M. Amato) writes:
>I think the "Kinght of the Ancient and Honorable Order of the Rampant Turtle"
>has a valid point here.  The policy of voting implies democracy, which seems
>to be lacking.  Anybody want to CALL FOR VOTES to change the voting policy?
>It should get a very interesting response.

It will reopen a crack to the nether depths of hell...

Since the Beginning of Time, everyone has just sort of "known" the
standard newsgroup creation guidelines.  A few months ago, there was a
*massive* flame war in news.groups, news admin, et cetera about how
the system should/should not be changed which ended up with Greg Woods
getting fed up with it all and pounding out an actual, written,
formalized procedure for newsgroup creation which everybody mostly
agreed upon.

If you want some background send mail to woods@ncar.ucar.edu, there
should also be a copy of the "Newsgroup Creation Guidelines" or
whatever he called it reposted in news.announce.newusers every so
often.

Andrew Boardman
amb@cs.columbia.edu
(and if you really have to, ab4@cunixc on bitnet)

References

Re: UseNET voting
jaa@frank.Philips.Com (Joseph M. Amato)
Wed, 16 Aug 1989 13:32:46 +0000
UseNET voting
t-phils@microsoft.UUCP (Phil Stracchino)
Tue, 15 Aug 1989 22:07:05 +0000